The PALS program, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) for 2024–2028, continues to foster ground-breaking research through its collaboration between WCMM, DDLS, and SciLifeLab Fellow programs. Following an evaluation process in the second annual call for collaborative PALS projects, eight projects have been approved for funding. We are thrilled to announce that WCMM Lund Fellow

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/success-wcmm-lund-fellows-pals-call-2024 - 2025-08-25

Photographer: Tove Smeds Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receives the award for his work on reprogramming blood cells and the development of immunotherapies based on this technology. It was a sheep that determined Filipe Pereira's career choice. He was in hi

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/filipe-pereira-awarded-eric-k-fernstrom-prize-young-researchers - 2025-08-25

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/possible-association-between-tattoos-and-lymphoma-revealed - 2025-08-25

Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living Labs are being developed a

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-kes-mccormick - 2025-08-25

Photo: Håkan Rodhe Meet our new colleague Georgios Pardalis who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, with master’s degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gävle and a PhD from Linnaeus University, he has now moved to Lund. Georgios has a background in Building Technology and Industrial Economics, and will be working as Associate Senior Lectu

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-georgios-pardalis - 2025-08-25

A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Fredrik Schlyter Researchers have successfully mapped the entire genome of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle. The breakthrough paves the way for new research into bark beetles and better prospects for effective pest control of a species that can destroy more than 100 million cubic metres of spruce forest during a single year in Europe and Asia. Mapping the genome of the

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/entire-genome-common-forest-pest-now-revealed - 2025-08-25

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/stress-may-trigger-male-defense-against-predators - 2025-08-25

None of the technologies, except the medication robot, helped ease staff shortages, in the study. Photo: Sebastian Scholtz/Creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Lack of choice, clashing views and time pressure are findings in a first article on welfare technology, from the Welfare@home project, which includes SWEAH PhD student Samantha Svärdh, Lund University. Her second article gives us informatio

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/welfare-technology-not-solution-without-user-engagement - 2025-08-25

https://www.science.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-08-25

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-doctoral-thesis-questions-dating-known-lunar-crater - 2025-08-25

https://www.science.lu.se/article/stress-may-trigger-male-defence-against-predators - 2025-08-25

Photo: Melanie Karlsson. It takes a long time, up to several decades, before the benefits of organic farming take full effect on land that was previously cultivated conventionally, a new study from Lund University suggests. After thirty years, the plant species richness around the cultivated crop had doubled on organic farms compared to conventional farms. It is well known that organic farming ben

https://www.science.lu.se/article/organic-farms-had-doubled-plant-diversity-only-over-time - 2025-08-25

SHREC the detector is inspected by Pavel Golubev. Photo: Dirk Rudolph. Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the world so far: number 120. The search for new elements comes from the dream of finding a variant that is sufficiently stable to be

https://www.science.lu.se/article/successful-experiment-paves-way-new-element - 2025-08-25

Illustration of a complex biological network. AI-generated in Midjourney. In 2025, the Faculty of Science launched a new doctoral programme in computational science to meet the growing demand for advanced computational methods in research. This initiative aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and train doctoral students in handling and analysing large datasets across fields such as medic

https://www.science.lu.se/article/faculty-science-invests-computational-science-new-doctoral-programme-meets-growing-demand-advanced - 2025-08-25

Photo: ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. Two exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Time travel through the Milky WayTwo Lund astronomers, Sofi

https://www.science.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-and-migratory-birds-awarded-grants - 2025-08-25

Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre, Skåne University Hospital and Lund University. A large amount of lungs donated yearly cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Skåne University Hospital and Lund University have conducted an animal study with results that give hope that more donor lungs could be used to save lives in the future. The researchers have started a pilot study

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-treatment-can-result-access-more-donor-lungs-and-fewer-complications-after-transplantations - 2025-08-25

“Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different organisations, Lunds Universitet, Lunds Kommun, Sysav, Ideon Innovation, EIT Climate-

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2018-0 - 2025-08-25

Alexandra Franzén outside of the AF-building in Lund where Jan Guillou and Peter Bratt gave a speech about the IB-scandal the evening before they were imprisoned for their publication. Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in s

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-08-25

Photo: iStock. Are you curious about or want to share experiences about the evaluation of education and get more tools and inspiration? Register for the Faculty's annual quality conference, no later than 1 November. Jenni Erlandsson, Quality Coordinator, who is involved in arranging the Faculty's annual quality conference, Forum Kvalitet, tells us more about the conference and the Faculty's qualit

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/facultys-quality-conference-wants-engage-more-people-teaching-quality - 2025-08-25

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we currently face in the world, reflected in the overall title of the summer meeting. To start off the e

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting-2021-food-andeverything-else - 2025-08-25